shelley berkley's race, elizabeth warren's state. claire mccaskill's race. it's helping democratic female caidates. ec tro ie republican party has very few cotituencies left they can rely on. it's primaily old, white men. if you want to alienate women further than they've been alienated in this process, you veolitnse a they're suffering a gender gap. this makes it worse. i know it won't have an effect in the missouri race when it comes to the presidential contest, but it creates an image problem for other races in -- >> that's whbody wand to embrace this guy. they have toecause they want to theenatso. here's a new poll. let's take a look at the indiana senate race. congressman joe donnelly two points ahead of state treasurer richard mourdock. it's in the margin of error. it should set f alarm bells the nrcs, shouldn't it, sam? >>h,eais tis a trend not just about indiana. it's about, you know, maybe half a dozen states now where we're seeing democratic senate candidates basically rising up above the republican opponents. you have to look at larger trends to p